Frances Barth

Place: Bronx

Born: 1946

Biography:

Frances Barth is an American visual artist born in 1946 in the Bronx, New York. She is best known for her paintings that exist between abstraction, landscape, and mapping, and later in her career, video and narrative works. Barth emerged during a period where contemporary painters sought a way forward beyond 1960s minimalism and conceptualism. Her work combines modernist formalism, geometric abstraction, referential elements, and metaphor. She has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Dallas Museum of Art, and in the Whitney and Venice Biennials. Her work is part of the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and Whitney Museum, among others. Barth is also the director emerita of the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).